“When did training good workers become the sole purpose of education? Palantir's fellowship addresses a real problem: College is broken. But its solution -- four weeks of seminars, then straight to corporate roles -- replaces one flawed system with another ("Data Firm Turns to High School in Hunt for New Talent," Business & Finance, Nov. 4).
I understand the appeal. Palantir is giving kids real responsibility, projects and agency -- each of which college often fails to provide. What's missing, though, is the space to become fully formed humans before locking into someone else's agenda.
The social-efficiency movement of the early 1900s gave us schools as factories, students as products and learning as job prep. A century later, we're still trapped in this paradigm. Has it made us happier, freer or wiser?
We're living through history's greatest acceleration while running on outdated systems. The next generation needs more than accelerated job training; it needs to develop the uniquely human skills artificial intelligence will never replicate: discernment, conscience, a purpose beyond profit and productivity.
The question Palantir raises -- "What's college for?" -- deserves a more ambitious answer than producing workers faster. We don't need to abandon higher education -- we need to reimagine it as something higher than job training, richer than resume building and worthy of our whole humanity. We need education that asks: How do we develop whole humans who can think critically, lead courageously and build a world that works for everyone?
Abby Falik
Berkeley, Calif.” [1]
1. What Palantir's High-School Grads Don't Get. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 10 Nov 2025: A16.
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